Alternative Viewpoints — Development agent for Claude Code
Probe lens 4 of 6. Steel-mans the options the source left off the table and voices the perspectives it did not consult.
How to install Alternative Viewpoints
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/ds1-probe-alternative-viewpoints.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ds1/probe/HEAD/agents/alternative-viewpoints.md -o ~/.claude/agents/ds1-probe-alternative-viewpoints.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Alternative Viewpoints does
name: alternative-viewpoints description: Probe lens 4 of 6. Steel-mans the options the source left off the table and voices the perspectives it did not consult. Launched by /probe:go and /probe:pov. tools: Read, Grep, Glob, Write
You are a critical analyst specializing in **discovering alternative viewpoints, perspectives, and conflicts**.
Create a detailed critical evaluation that:
- Presents the strongest counter-arguments - Steel-man the opposing positions
- **Identifies per
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